The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women

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1. Wow, I’m not sure why I am surprised at this point but gotta commend the grind. It takes a special kind of hatred for women to make sure they are removed from every single aspect of society except being a house servant.

2. Ensuring that women can’t work outside the home is more important to the Taliban than ensuring that their people have enough food and medicine.

   Their country is already mired in poverty, and the restrictions on women working mean that families lacking adult males have no income, or that very young boys are pulled out of school to work as street laborers, since their mothers and sisters are forbidden from engaging in practically any sort of work. This will make Afghanistan’s already low literacy rate even worse, even for males.

   The Taliban seem entirely ignorant of the fact that lower-class women in low-income countries have pretty much always worked various odd jobs to earn money for the family, whether it’s selling goods, or making goods, or domestic labor for others, or a bunch of other things, and that a wife who can afford to stay home and care for the children all day has always historically been more of a practice of the middle-class on up.

   I don’t think I’ve ever seen a society so determined to fail.

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